NOTICE
T is bereby
made
known
that our West
Indian
General
Agency’s
Life
Insur-
ance-department
will be
closed
from
the
1 October
1920, according
to friendly
agreement
with
our present
Agent
MR.
J. TORNQE.
After_ the
above
date
the
Premiums
concerning
our West
Indian Policies
must
be remited
direct
to us by the Insured.
Copenhagen,
the
1 August
1920.
The Directors of:
DET
GJENSIDIGELIVSFORSIK-
RINGSSELSKAB
“DANMARK’".
Movies!
Movies!
Movies!
ovies! Movies! Movies:
Admission
Free!
MARINE BARRACKS,
CHRISTIANSED.
_
Thursday
Sept.
16, 1920
AT 8.00 P. M. SHARP.
The picture showtadvertised
to be held
at the Christiansted
T'heatre
Wednesday
September
Bth.
will be given at the
Ma-
rine
Barracks,
Thursday
September
16
at 8.00
p.
m, sharp.
The public is cordially invited.
-
PROGRAM
€
1.
Selection
by tl.e Navy Band,
2.
Ist Reel of Charlie Chaplin Comic.
3.
Selection
by the Navy Band.
4.
Introductory by the Chief
Sanitation
Officer.
5.
Illustrated
lecture by the Sanitation
Officer.
e
6.
Selection
by the Navy Band.
7
Stereopticon
iews of the
Virgin ls-
lands.
»
8.
2nd Reel of Charlie
Chaplin Comic.
9.
Star Spangled
Banner.
At
7.30
p.
m. sharp
the
Navy
Band
will parade
from the
Park,
through
the
streets
terminating
at the
Marine
Bar-
racks.
FOLLOW
THE
BAND.
Department
of Health
Sanitation
Ser-
vice,
St. Croix.
The
mail from
the Virginia, there
was
none by the
S.
S. Katahdin,
arrived here
on Saturday
afternoon
thus affording the
public
a
somewhat
unusual
opportunity
of replying
by
the
return
trip of
the
schooner.
’
The
s.
s. Katahdin
called
at
this port
vesterday,
landed
some
hundred
and
odd
ST.
ORURX
A NS
Finest
Quality
Park &Tilford Choco-
lates &Bonbons
1 & 21b. boxes
~at very low rates
~
also
Vanilla Chocolate
3 |b.
Cakes
at 50 cents
:
now for sale
;
at
Ghristiansted
Apothecary
Hall,
tons
of
cargo
and
sailed
for
St. Kitts
at 4p.
m. taking mail.
It is
gratifying
to report
that
the steamer
entered
and
left the
harbor
without mishap
as
had
occurred
on
previous
occasions
when
boats
of this
company grounded.
The Navy Band
was favored
with good
weather
and light and rendered
a
pro-
gramme
in the bandstand
last night.
Attention is directed to the programme.,
advertised
in this
issue,
of
the
famous
ncw scrial the firat instalment
of
whiech
will be presented
at the theatre
this even-
ing.
°
TELEGRAMS.
.
ST. CROIX STATION.
New York, Sept
T7th. —Messrs. J.
P.
Morgan
and
Company
‘-
as'
syndicate
managers,
today
announced
the terms
of
the
new
§500,000,000
French
ILoan,
a 26
year
8%
external,
gold obligation
to
run
from September
fifteenth
next.
The
Bonds:
constitute
a direct lien
on
the
French
Government
which' agreed
to
redeem
them
without
reduction
for
any French
taxes
on
‘or before
Septem-
ber
15th
1946.
A subscription
book
will be opened
in New
York next
week
at 100 and accrued interest.
Paris,
- Sept.
7Tth.--An
official note
to-
day
confirms
the
announcement
of the
arrangements
made
to
get
the Anglo-
French
Loan floated in the United States
maturing
October
15th. next.
The note
sets
forth
that
France’s
half
of
the
loan
is being
covered,
to
the extent
of
$160,000,000
by
‘‘Transfers
of gold of
certain fimportance’’, and
by exchange
which jthe French -Treasury
has
obtain-
ed, and
the remaining
$100,000,000
by
a loan on the American
market.
Ottawa,
Seot.
Tth. —By virtue of
a
judgment
which willbe issued
from
the
officers of
.
the Board
of Railwav
Com-
missioners,
probably
tomorrow,
railway
companies
in Canada
are granted
an
in-
crease
of 40% in Eastern
Canada freight-
rates
and 36% in Western
freight,
effec-
tive Monday
uext
September
13th,
and
to continue
in force until
Necember
31st.
After
December
31st
the
increase
in
freight-rates
in Eastern
Canada will be
reduced
from 40 to 35%,
and in Western
Canada
from 35 40 30%.
° Simultaneously
with
the increase
in freight-rates.
pas-
senger-rates
all over the country
are
ad-
vanced
20%.
so long as 'they do not
ex-
ceed
four
cents
a
mile,
This
increase
_
is effective only to December
81st.
After
that date
a:d for the six months
period
from January
Ist
to July Ist 1921
a
10%
“increase
is
authorized.
Following July
Ist,
passenger-rates
return
to-those
in
force
at
the present
time.
The judgment
will authorize
increases
of 50% in
sleep-
ing and parlour-car rates;
and
an increase
of 20% in the rate
on oxcess
baggage.
London,
Sept.
7th.—Following
is
the
result
of the St. keger,
Galigula Ist, Sil-
vern.2nd,
Mantos 3rd.
-
Kingston,
Jamaica,
Sept.
Tth.—lt is
announced jthat
the
epidemic¢
of Kaffir
Pox is
on the
decresse.
Rome,
Sept.
Bth.—Scores
of lives
are
believed
to have been lcst
in the district
north
of
Florence
which
was
severely
shaken
-by
an
earthquake
‘yesterday
morning.
The
territory
violently
dis-
turbed
seems
to be of lozenge shape
with
Florence
at the southern
apex and
Mode-
na at the northern end.
It extends along
the
coast
and
runs
over
the
Apennines
eastward
for upwardsßof
100 miles.
At
Fivezzano,
a town of 17,000
inhabitants
near Carrara,
almost
every building was
damaged
and
'many were completely
destroyed.
-
Among
the collapsed’
sfruc
tures,
is the Post
Office in the
ruins
of
which is the entire staff.
Rivesno,
Ferni
and
Montignore
are
reported
-in
ruins,
while
in
Marina
and
Carrara
many
structures
have collapsed.
-
London,
Sept.
Bth.—Caligula
100 to
6
.
won
today
the
great St.
Legar
Race,
Silvern-8 to 1 was second,
Manton 33t0
1
-
was third.
- The victory ofLord Wilton’s
-
Culigula was
a great
surprise
to the
rac
~
ing public,
‘-but
he
has
been
consistent-
ly
fancied
by
his
stable
since
last
-
June
when
he
won
the
Ascot
Derby
~
Stakes
of
a
mile
and
ja
half
in
de-
cisive
fashion' beating
among' others,
.
~
Orpheus,
second
favourite today.
Cali-
Zula
adds
another
victory to
the
long
~
list
of
winners
of
the
product
of his
'
famous
sire,
the
Tetrarch.
The
failure
of the
favourite
Spionkop
was
a great
.
disappointment
to
the
public
whose
-
faith
in
the
Derby
-winner- never
.
failed.
Sir Edward Hulton’s Silvern and
-
third
favourite,
ran into ‘second place,
-
while a rank outsider Lady Douglas
Man.
ton finished third.
© The result’ complete-
.
lyreversed the
thrée
year oldform: for
;
the season.
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i
Adelaide,-South
Australia,
Sept.
Bth. -
'
Resolutions favouring
pr hibition were
rejected
by
the
Anglican Synod
in
Ses-
sion here
yesterday,
During the debate
~
on the
resolutions
one: of
the speakers,
Reuter Walker,
said ‘‘Prohibition is anti-